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The emergence of care facilities in Thailand for older German-speaking people: structural backgrounds and facility operators as transnational actors

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  • Désirée Bender

    (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

  • Tina Hollstein

    (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

  • Cornelia Schweppe

    (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

Abstract

This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of old age care facilities for German-speaking people in Thailand. It analyses the conditions and processes behind the development and specific designs of such facilities. It first looks at the intertwinement, at the socio-structural level, of different transborder developments in which the facilities’ emergence is embedded. Second, it analyses the processes that accompany the emergence, development and organisation of these facilities at the local level. In this regard, it points out the central role of the facility operators as transnational actors who mediate between different frames of reference and groups of actors involved in these facilities. It concludes that the processes of mediation and intertwining are an important and distinctive feature of the emergence of these facilities, necessitated by the fact that, although the facilities are located in Thailand, their ‘markets’ are in the German-speaking countries of their target groups.

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  • Désirée Bender & Tina Hollstein & Cornelia Schweppe, 2017. "The emergence of care facilities in Thailand for older German-speaking people: structural backgrounds and facility operators as transnational actors," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 14(4), pages 365-374, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:eujoag:v:14:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1007_s10433-017-0444-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s10433-017-0444-1
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    1. Yuan Tang & Tara Rava Zolnikov, 2021. "Examining Opportunities, Challenges and Quality of Life in International Retirement Migration," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(22), pages 1-13, November.
    2. Esma Betül Savaş & Juul Spaan & Kène Henkens & Matthijs Kalmijn & Hendrik P. van Dalen, 2023. "Migrating to a new country in late life: A review of the literature on international retirement migration," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 48(9), pages 233-270.
    3. Savas, Esma Betul & Spaan, Juul & Henkens, Kène & Kalmijn, Matthijs & van Dalen, Hendrik Peter, 2023. "Migrating to a new country in late life: A review of the literature on international retirement migration," Other publications TiSEM 5d958f16-41db-4f8f-b0c3-d, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

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